Bare Quantities

Famous quotes containing the words bare and/or quantities:

    your bare feet on the floors of silence
    speak in rhymed stanzas to the furniture,
    solemn chests of drawers and heavy chairs
    blinking in the sun you have let in!
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    The Walrus and the Carpenter
    Were walking close at hand:
    They wept like anything to see
    Such quantities of sand:
    “If this were only cleared away,”
    They said, “it would be grand!”
    “If seven maids with seven mops
    Swept it for half a year,
    Do you suppose,” the Walrus said,
    “That they could get it clear?”
    “I doubt it,” said the Carpenter,
    And shed a bitter tear.
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)